Narrating the Past, Locating the Self: Matthaios of Myra and Synadinos of Serres, Two Clerics from 17th-Century Ottoman Europe

Identifications of Orthodox Christians in Ottoman Southeastern Europe (c. 1450–c. 1750), 2026,  [pp. 351-373]

 

AUTHOR(S) / AUTOR(I): Konrad Petrovszky

 
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/7179.132.8.351P

ABSTRACT / SAŽETAK:

To be an Orthodox priest in the Ottoman Balkans was to endure many hard-ships – not necessarily from the ‘cursed Turks’, but also, as these voices make clear, from one’s own ‘Christian brothers’. The first testimony belongs to Matthaios, the abbot of the Wallachian Monastery of Dealu, who in 1611 witnessed popular rage against his fellow Greeks, while the second one is from Synadinos, a parish priest from the Macedonian town of Serres, who decries his deposition and expulsion sometime around 1639.

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(Trans-)Formation of Identities: Orthodox Christians in Ottoman Balkans (c.1450–c.1750) -FORMIDOX

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